Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment. Show all posts

Friday, August 06, 2021

Okay, Einstein… Where’s the Juice?

Uncle Joe Biden is now mandating that 50% of all vehicles on the road will be electric by 2030. 

 

Out here in California, where Newsom is the chief demagogue, the state is asking owners of electric cars not to drive, because there’s not enough electricity.  It’s hot, people are running air conditioning 24/7, one dam just shut down due to lack of water and the Diablo nuclear plant is being taken down. Across the nation, Biden is shutting down coal and gas-fired plants and the electric grid is already stretched razor-thin! 

 

Forget the fact that Americans don’t like electric cars! Where’s the juice going to come from for electric cars, Joe? Out of your ass?

 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Monday, April 01, 2019

REAL CAUSE OF "GLOBAL WARMING" DISCOVERED

According to "THE BLAZE," a recent study in the Journal of Industrial Ecology concludes, "white Americans' eating patterns had the highest per capita greenhouse gas and water impacts of any demographic group due to their consumption of "environmentally intense food items" such as potatoes, beef, apples, and milk. Black Americans' diets had the highest per capita land impact "due to their consumption of land‐intense food items in the fruit and 'protein foods' food groups," but had the lowest per capita greenhouse gas emissions of the three groups examined.  

In other words, global warming is due to white Americans, most of which are probably deplorables, gun owners, racists and conservatives.  

One might also conclude that Black Angus cow farts are not as toxic to the environment as white cow farts.  As a side benefit to this new knowledge, we now know why Cory Booker's farts don''t smell and Adam Schiff's do. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

IF THIS DOESN'T MAKE YOU SICK, NOTHING WILL

You won't often find me jumping up and down about environmental issues, basically because they were politicized under the Obama administration.  So, while I'm not one to wave the flags of global warming, I've seen some things in recent years that really do concern me.  

Native Americans have, by-and-large, always striven to leave the planet a better world than it was when they got here.  So, I was astonished and totally dismayed to see the piles of rotting rubbish they left behind at their encampment near the Standing Sioux Reservation after the pipeline protests there ended.  

In more recent weeks, however, a more imminent threat to our planet has emerged along the shores of our worldwide oceans.  Take a gander at this video: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/14/waves-garbage-crash-ashore-in-stunning-footage.html

Added to that visible, sickening pollution are the unseen globs of spilled oil, untold tons of raw sewage from ships, boats and shoreline cities, and the types of garbage that sink to the ocean floors as opposed to becoming floating debris fields such as the one depicted in the Philippines.  

We humans simply have to put a stop to this.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Monday, July 30, 2018

MY THOUGHTS ON THE CARR FIRE NEAR REDDING

The fire near Redding, California is making national news: Governor Brown has declared it to be in a state of emergency and President Trump is invoking rules to provide for Federal assistance.  This fire started last Monday in the mountains due to a flat tire on a motor vehicle causing sparks.  That night, the fire stood at 65 acres.  Tuesday night, it had grown to 265 acres... and then things blew up.  Wednesday, it was almost 3,000 acres; Thursday, over 28,000 acres; Friday over 43,000 acres; Saturday it hit 83,000 acres and Sunday morning it was 89,000 acres. 

In the process, it burned into the northwest section of Redding, destroying businesses and houses, and started to take lives. 

Unfortunately, a lot of bad things have been happening: some jerks are driving around with their cameras, trying to get a fire shot; some have taken to looting; and some are refusing to leave areas that are under evacuation, meaning that fire personnel now have to worry about them instead of fighting the fire.  Some techie sportsmen are even flying drones over the fires, creating potential dangers for helicopters and tankers.  

Most people mean well, but simply have no clue.  They want to donate food, water, clothing and other items to evacuation centers and to firefighters.  Firefighters are ell-equipped and adept at setting up their own food centers and the logistics involved in that.  But, picture this: I'll pick up two cases of bottled water and take them to the evacuation center down the road; that sounds like a good idea, right?  In a city of 95,000 residents with another 35,000 or so within reasonable driving distance, if just 1% follow through with two cases each, that's 2,600 cases of water that are going to show up.  

The center has to store that water someplace where others might want to sleep.  It has to provide someone to haul the water in.  If the evacuation center has to move, it now has to contend with moving 2,600 cases of water along with cots, food and people.  Add to that... baby diapers, blankets, clothing, cases of hot dogs, chips, dips... it becomes a nightmare.  

The best thing to do if you want to help, is donate to a local veterans group, a civic club, a church, the Red Cross or the Salvation Army; all of these organizations can use the funds to help their own members who may have been burned out, or they can funnel the funds to evacuation centers which can then order in what they actually need and as supplies run low.  

These fires can move suddenly and erratically.  If you get told to get out... get out.  If you're within ten miles of an evacuation area, you should already be packed and ready to go... and you should have a destination and route planned.  

Be safe, be smart. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Tuesday, June 06, 2017

CHICKEN LITTLE GORE SOUNDS OFF

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Former Vice President Al Gore has warned that President Donald Trump's decision to leave the Paris climate agreement would likely lead to the end of the world, The Washington Times reported Sunday.  

Quick!  Don't waste even a split second!  We must take to the streets!  It's Trump's fault!  Hang him in effigy!  Let the terrorists in!  Open the borders!  Push little old ladies in wheelchairs over the cliffs!  Call out the National Guard! It says right there in the Book of Revelations... the end of the world is coming!  

Thank God the liberals will save us!  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

ABOUT YUCCA MOUNTAIN

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Nevada's famous Yucca Mountain is back in the news.  Located north of Las Vegas, the mountain was once slated to be a national repository for nuclear waste, but Nevada's Harry Reid successfully engineered Obama's trashing of the plan and it was put on hold.  

Nevada claims that due to the long, long life of radioactive waste, depositing it into the ground in Nevada could lead to underground poisoning of groundwater in centuries to come.  The simple and plain truth is that Nevada's Mercury Test Site, also located north of Las Vegas, was home to extensive above and below-ground nuclear testing for years; in order words, the area is already full of unconstrained  underground contamination.  

In that respect, the most logical place to store future piles of radioactive materials, mostly consisting of spent nuclear fuel rods above ground at the nation's nuclear energy sites, would be someplace where nuclear tests have been conducted... where such radioactivity already exists.  

Reid and other Nevada leaders have successfully been able to stave off opening of the Yucca Mountain site... all for political purposes.  Yet, we simply must find a solution about what to do with a burgeoning mass of highly radioactive materials, and leaving them above ground where they are subject to being stolen and used by foreign enemies just doesn't make any sense to me.  

As it stands, there isn't a living human being within 100 miles of Yucca Mountain, although nearby Area 51 is reportedly teeming with alien beings.   Since it is in the middle of an uninhabited desert and already virtually completed, I suggest we finish the project at the earliest possible opportunity.  

And, perhaps, they'll have there next Democrat National Convention there.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Monday, March 13, 2017

FUKUSHIMA REVISITED

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You may recall that there was a huge earthquake just off the coast of Japan in 2011 that led to a meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant and simultaneous releases of highly radioactive water and gases from the plant.  The Japanese government downplayed the matter and refused help from other counties, including the United States.  Since then, news about the status of the plant and efforts to clean it up has been rather sparse.  

We do know that efforts to create a frozen ice barrier around the base of the site have been largely ineffective.  There have also been some reports of increased radioactivity among sea life in the vicinity.  In December of 2016, we learned that radioactive cesium-134 had reached the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest.  Also for the first time, cesium-134 has been detected in a Canadian salmon.  

In early February, there was a brief one-day report circulated among some U.S. media outlets that radiation levels at the plant had reached the highest levels since the original disaster.  Cameras sent in to one reactor to examine the extent of the problem immediately malfunctioned due to the high levels of radiation.  Speculation was, and is, that reactor number two is in total meltdown, with horribly high levels of radiation being detected under the reactor... radiation strong enough to kill a human being in one minute.   

Once again, both U.S. and Japanese officials are downplaying the danger.  U.S. officials insist that the cesium reaching our shores poses no threat to human life and is well-below the danger level; they cease to mention that all it takes is one particle of radiation to strike the right human cell and cancer is born.  The Japanese insist that no radiation is in danger of seeping into the ocean or the groundwater beneath the plant; the fact is that we all know high levels of radiation have existed in the groundwater for years and that fish or other sea life in the vicinity have to be getting their increased levels of radiation from somewhere.  

Just so you have an idea of what we are discussing here, the previous record of 73 sieverts per hour in radiation was detected in 2012; the most recent reading is at 573.  

The Fukushima disaster always has and always will pose a significant threat to the west coast of the United States, and after six years of efforts to contain the problem we are no closer today than we were on day one.  

We'd better keep an eye on it.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

ENERGY: OBAMA SCREWS AMERICA AGAIN

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Drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico has been forbidden by the Obama administration over the last eight years.  During this period, Cuba and Brazil have vastly expanded drilling in the Gulf, including areas formerly open to U.S. companies.  Obama's decision was predicated upon environmental concerns.   This closure has contributed to a brewing energy crisis in the United States.  

Now, in virtually his last days in office,, Obama is about to exercise another Executive Order barring any future drilling off the Atlantic Coast, in the Gulf of Alaska and the Arctic.  This ban would open those areas to drilling by Russia without interference, while at the same time limiting future U.S. oil production and placing us at greater risk of dependence on Middle Eastern oil supplies.  Environmental groups are hoping the ban, despite relying on executive powers, will be difficult for a future president to reverse.   

I am certainly in favor of protecting our environment.  But, I'll be damned if I'm going to tolerate freezing my fanny off or walking 20 miles to work because we're without energy, while the rest of the world gloms onto oil which justifiably belongs to us.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 


Tuesday, November 22, 2016

FUKUSHIMA REDUX?

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Back in March of 2011, there was an enormous earthquake off the coast of Japan that rattled the nuclear plants at Fukushima, causing a meltdown in two reactors and releasing radioactive particles into both water and air.  Since then, mutated life forms have been found in the forests and there have been human babies born in Japan with extra arms and legs; marine life off the coast has been dying off.  

The virtual news blackout regarding Fukushima may be leading the public to assume that the problem is now under control, but the truth is that nothing has yet been done to address the main issue... there are still piles of highly radioactive molten fuel rods burning uncontrollably beneath the three damaged buildings that housed the reactors.

They are still wrestling with the problem of containment of millions of gallons of highly radioactive water under the site; they've tried everything from installing concrete barriers to freezing the water.  What compounded the problems is that the Japanese government firmly refused to allow technical help from the United States.  
 
Naturalnews.com is reporting official data released at the National Conference on Radiation Control shows the U.S. has been experiencing a huge spike in radiation from Fukushima. Levels are considered to be far exceeding the federal regulatory limit, with nearly 1,000 times the normal amount of alpha particles recorded, including plutonium.  Alpha radiation is thought to be the least dangerous form of radiation when compared with beta and gamma rays – with even simple clothing stopping the alpha particles from reaching the body. However, alpha particles become extremely dangerous when ingested or inhaled. If you're fortunate and only consume small doses, you may not show any symptoms. However, many people who are exposed suffer radiation sickness including nausea, vomiting, headaches and fatigue.

And now comes another major earthquake just off the coast of Fukushima.  They are saying the existing operating nuclear plants have not been damaged, but what about all of that pent up radiation at the Fukushima site?  

This issue is very scary and bears our ongoing monitoring.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  


Thursday, July 28, 2016

I'M NOW A SNIPER ON THE HUNT

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I'm holed up in my house, hiding behind the living room curtain.  I've got my loaded Glock 23 holstered on my hip and my loaded Savage 7mm Rem Mag laying on my lap.  There is dead silence in the house; the lights are out and it is as dark as it can get.  I'm waiting, ready for the enemy to make a move.  

John Kerry says that air conditioners and refrigerators are a bigger threat to this country than I.S.I.S. and if either one of them makes a move, I'm going to blast them into smithereens.  It's either me or them, and I'm not taking any chances.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

Monday, November 30, 2015

SHUDDERING IN THEIR SANDALS

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Obama is off to Paris for his treasured climate change summit and the I.S.I.S. and Al Qaeda terrorists are shuddering in fear of this powerful rebuke.  Is it possible that the Nobel Prince of Peace could waive his hands in the air and the earth would open up and swallow the terrorists?  

Well, that may sound a tad facetious, especially when you consider that Obama's real war is on global warming.  One of these days, he just might wake up and realize that the heat emanating from the guns, bombs and cannons of the terrorists are probably contributing to "global warming."  If that ever happens, you can bet that he'll finally send in the storm troopers to kill off those terrorists.  That's the only reason he'll ever get serious with his Muslim buddies in the terrorist training camps.  

They're starting to call him names: delirious comes to mind.  Frankly, I think he has become a lunatic.  Maybe he's planning on moving to Syria after he leaves office and that's the real reason that he wants to bring the Syrian terrorists to the United States?  One thing is for certain: his presidency has become downright preposterous... absurd... maniacal.  And that's being polite about it.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.    
 


Tuesday, August 11, 2015

THE KINGDOM OF DONKEYS

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency, (USEPA), that huge, but pious government agency that has been piling mountains upon mountains of regulations on air, water and land use, has become squarely to blame for one of the worst environmental disasters in the history of the western states.  An 80-mile length of mustard-colored water -- laden with arsenic, lead, copper, aluminum and cadmium -- is working its way south toward New Mexico and Utah, following Wednesday's accidental release from the Gold King Mine, near Durango, Colorado,  when an EPA cleanup crew destabilized a dam of loose rock lodged in the mine. The crew was supposed to pump out and decontaminate the sludge, but instead released it into tiny Cement Creek. From there, it flowed into the Animas River and made its way into larger tributaries, including the San Juan and Colorado rivers, according to a report from FOX NEWS. 

Not only is the toxic sludge contaminating waterways, it is likely to contaminate both domestic and agricultural wells as it settles into the ground.  This will involve years, if not decades, of monitoring and decontamination efforts, all paid for by the U.S. taxpayer.  It is yet another one of Obama's administrative agencies that has systematically ruined our country.  

And it is now apparent for everyone to see... nobody in Obama's government knows their ass from a hole in the ground.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Monday, January 20, 2014

FUKUSHIMA UPDATE

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Scientists are saying there is little evidence to show that radiation has reached the Western U.S.  They plan an extensive survey of kelp fields up and down the coast over the next few months to see if radiation in the ocean is increasing.  Yes, levels have increased sporadically, but they say the spikes are nowhere near as high as during the initial event or even after the World War II nukes were dropped in Japan.  

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has clamped down on all information regarding the plant.  TEPCO, the plant operator, occasionally leaks a tidbit, but is also secretive.  Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) says, “We regard the current situation as not being under control.” We also know that huge amounts of highly radioactive water have been making their way into the Pacific Ocean on a daily basis for months.  

I have learned that they began removal of 1,500 nuclear fuel rods from the plant in November.  Many of these have been destroyed or partially destroyed during prior meltdowns.  We also know that there was a high level of activity at the site in late December and early January, when radioactive steam was bellowing from one of the reactors.  Finally, we know that tanks installed to collect and retain radioactive water have begun to crack and disintegrate, spilling their contents.  

But to be honest, we have no way of knowing at this time what the real extent of the danger to us, if any, is. 

Illegitimi non carborundum. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

THE LATEST ON JAPAN'S NUCLEAR PLANT

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Once again, Japan's Prime Minister has clammed up and little news is leaking out about the status of Japan's nuclear plant.  A few weeks ago, Shinzo Abe assured the International Olympics Committee that things at Fukushima were under control.  He went on to insist that the contamination was limited to a very small area and "poses no problem whatsoever."  

Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99
Shortly after the committee awarded Japan with the 2020 Summer Olympics, Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive with the plant's operating company, TEPCO, contradicted Abe by saying, "We regard the current situation as being not under control."  Last summer, it was revealed that as much as 300 tons of highly radioactive water had leaked from the site into the ocean.  

Without a doubt, the management of the cleanup has been riddled with problems and cover-ups.  TEPCO summarily rejected a plan to build an underground retaining wall to hold radioactive water back and instead chose to install underground plastic and metal tanks to collect the water; those tanks subsequently disintegrated, spilling their contents.  In 2012, the situation was so dangerous and bleak that the possibility of evacuating everything within a 100 mile radius loomed; Abe chose instead to put the clampers on the existence of the danger so that he could proceed to lobby for the Olympics.  

Days ago, word came that highly radioactive steam was escaping from Reactor Number 3 and that the danger of a total meltdown existed.  Since then, the news coming out of Japan about the situation at the plant has virtually dried up.  The mainstream media in the U.S. has been silent on the story; if there is no danger to us, why are they not being forthcoming?  

Illegitimi non carborundum. 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 
Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) contradicted the prime minister by saying, “We regard the current situation as not being under control.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#9PzMKC3x2t7Dyd7d.99

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

JAPAN'S NUCLEAR PLANT DANGERS CONTINUE TO MOUNT

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Japan has been somewhat secretive regarding the cleanup of the earthquake-tsunami ravaged Fukushima nuclear plant.  One worker claimed that duct tape and wire nets were used to hold the plant together, which is a prime reason for many leaks that have plagued the facility.  Steam rising from reactor number three has given rise to concerns of another meltdown.  TEPCO, the managing  company, has plans to siphon water from underground tunnels where high levels of cesium have been detected below reactor number four.  TEPCO has found a record 1.9 million becquerels per liter of beta ray-emitting radioactive substances at its No.2 reactor.

Fish off the coast of the plant are known to be contaminated; radioactive fish have also been reported in catches off America's west coast.  130 Japanese cars destined for Russia were found to contain high levels of radiation and were refused.  Measurements of excessive radiation in Pacifica, California have been summarily dismissed by government authorities, while TEPCO officials have been suggesting Americans be ready to seal doors and windows from the inside to minimize exposure to radioactive dust particles.  Japan's government has been actively recruiting homeless persons to assist in the plant cleanup.  

We already know the Japanese government has been keeping the lid on what is occurring at the beleaguered plant for well over a year.  It has become apparent that our federal government is also complicit in the cover-up.  American Navy personnel on board the U.S.S. Reagan were exposed to very high levels of radiation and are now being treated for radiation poisoning, although the mainline news sources are not carrying the story.  


Illegitimi non carborundum.  

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 
 

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

7.5 MILLION TIMES LEGAL RADIATION LIMIT!

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Radioactive iodine at 7.5 times the legal limit has been detected in seawater near the Fukushima Nuclear Plant, according to the LOS ANGELES TIMES.   Government officials yesterday created a "new legal limit" for radioactivity in fish, but even that new legal limit has been exceeded in some fish caught.  

In the meanwhile, radioactive Cesium is spreading throughout China. 

That's MY AMERICAN REPORT, respectfully submitted.

Monday, April 04, 2011

UGLY JAPANESE NUCLEAR SAGA CONTINUES

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Contaminated water in and around the Fukushima plant is preventing workers from reconnecting and powering up all systems, systems needed to start cooling the nuclear reactors.  Because containment vessels are full, they had to drain 10,000 tons of water above and beyond what is leaking into the ocean to make room for more cooling water to be sprayed on the junk heap. 

Efforts over the weekend to clog the existing leak with a special polymer, sawdust and even shredded newspapers failed to slow the flow at a cracked concrete maintenance pit near the shoreline. The water in that leak contains radioactive iodine at rates 10,000 times the legal limit. 

Radioactive Cesium is reaching China.  The levels of radiation continue to be elevated in the U.S., particularly along the West Coast. It appears that less and less information is being released on any of these issues. 


That's MY AMERICAN REPORT, respectfully submitted. 

Saturday, April 02, 2011

UNION THUGS ARE BACK


The news that Wisconsin public service unions are boycotting and threatening Madison businesses who do not come out in support of the unions against the new state law there is reminiscent of the old days when they literally beat people to death to get their ways.  Indeed, there have been threats to do bodily harm, yelling and protests outside the houses of government officials, and in-your-face intimidation at every level.   The unions almost sound as bad as the Democratic Party screaming and yelling at the Tea Parties.    

It’s not difficult to imagine Nancy Pelosi standing with the S.E.I.U. and screaming at the top of her lungs to the rest of America, “You will do as I say.” 

We all know that America is in deep financial trouble.  All government bodies are facing severely declining revenues and increasing demands for social services; ObamaCare will push many states over the edge of financial oblivion.  The rest of America is facing high unemployment and lower wages, losing houses, cars and in some cases whole families over financial stress.  Yet, the unions don’t seem to give one iota; they have theirs, and they’ll be damned if they’ll give it up. 

Their answer is for government to raise taxes so they can keep their wages and benefits; in other words, you and I are supposed to be the suckers. 

In Wisconsin, even those who merely contributed to the governor in his election campaign have been targeted by unions with bully tactics. 

Let me say that I do not believe that every union member is a thug.  But, most of their leaders and organizers are.  It is tempting to say that they must be involved with organized crime and, of course, they certainly have been in the past.  To them, it’s not what the country needs or what the majority of Americans feel; those things are the least of their concerns. 

To that extent, you must agree, they are not really Americans at all.  They are only thugs.  It’s time they got put in their collective places. 

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Things continue to get worse in Japan.  Yesterday, a blue glow started to show above Fukushima’s Reactor #1.  This appears to indicate that some uncontrolled reaction, undoubtedly associated with radiation spikes, is taking place within the plant.  Finally, Japan is asking other nations for help. 

We must continue to keep our wits about us and to keep track of the radiation levels in our country. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 




Friday, April 01, 2011

INSIDE JAPAN'S NUKE PLANTS: THE STATUS


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This from the BBC:
  • Reactor 1: Damage to the core from cooling problems. Building holed by gas explosion. Radioactive water detected in reactor and basement, and groundwater
  • Reactor 2: Damage to the core from cooling problems. Building holed by gas blast; containment damage suspected. Highly radioactive water detected in reactor and adjoining tunnel
  • Reactor 3: Damage to the core from cooling problems. Building holed by gas blast; containment damage possible. Spent fuel pond partly refilled with water after running low. Radioactive water detected in reactor and basement
  • Reactor 4: Reactor shut down prior to quake. Fires and explosion in spent fuel pond; water level partly restored
  • Reactors 5 & 6: Reactors shut down. Temperature of spent fuel pools now lowered after rising high
Radiation levels continue to rise dramatically both in and around the plant.  Radiation has made its way well into the Japanese food chain, in milk and cattle. 

Radiation levels in the Pacific Northwest remain slightly elevated, with the levels in New Hampshire and the Denver area being the highest in the nation and the highest in at least recent weeks.   Prices for radiation monitors and detectors have soared from a normal $450 to $550 to well over $2,000 for the same products.  Several companies have stopped accepting orders due to enormous backlogs, but the nagging question is: What direction would you head in if you discovered high levels of radiation in your backyard?  

Keep your eyes and ears posted.   

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.